Eldon Dedini: A Life of Cartoons
Eldon Dedini traversed the American cartooning spectrum from Disney to Playboy and all points in between (most notably the New Yorker). This 2006 documentary details that journey as family, friends, colleagues and the man himself talk about his life and work. As you’d expect, Dedini’s Playboy work centred around adult themes so this film is […]
Burma’s loudspeaker
Burmese cartoonist APK at his home in Yangon, January 2016. (Photo by Mika Schick) An exclusive report by The Surreal McCoy Clutching a scrap of paper with an address on it scrawled in Burmese, I got into a taxi in Yangon. We crawled through the mid-afternoon haze of traffic and eventually came to a halt […]
CRNI appeal directly to Iranian president for release of Atena Farghadani
Forty NGO’s and more than 75 international cartoonists have called on Hassan Rouhani to show leniency to the wrongfully jailed artist. The full letter, along with all the signatories, can be seen here on the CRNI website. Thanks to Terry Anderson.